Attempted robbery at Mira Mesa supermarket

Police are searching for a man who tried to rob a Vons supermarket in the Mira Mesa Shopping Center off Mira Mesa Boulevard around 2:45 p.m. Friday.

The man, described by San Diego Police as a 5’8” Hispanic male in his 20s, weighing between 160 and 170 pounds, was wearing a blue jumpsuit with a white patch on his shoulder and AJ Plumbing was possibly written on it.

The unarmed thief told a cashier he wanted to buy a money order. After she rang up his total, he whispered to her that it was actually a robbery. The cashier asked him to repeat what he had said, but instead the man took off running without taking any money.